Journal 47 - Poles intend to remove monuments from the Communist area
Law and Justice, the Polish governing party, presented a draft law encouraging local authorities to remove monuments and street names that glorify communist rule.
Kaczynski’s conservative and nationalist government wants to purge public life of former communists and symbols, which remain of Poles submission to Russia. The new law will take effect in a few months. The state will cover the costs of removing monuments and changing names. It will be same exceptions, such as for cemeteries and monuments honoring Soviet soldiers who died in World War II.
There will remain historically valuable buildings. One of them is Warsaw landmark Stalin-era Palace of Culture and Science. It was a special gift of the Soviet comrades to the Polish friends. This huge construction was structured from 1953 to 1955. The Russian Capital, Moscow, has had seven very similar buildings. In the former Soviet Union all had to be huge. It had have testified about supremacy communism over capitalism. I will devote a separate journal to this unique construction.
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